From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][v2] Align file accesses with cache=off (O_DIRECT)
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:52:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805202352.17807.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080520223602.GE27853@shareable.org>
> When sector-aligned guest offsets are converted to sector-unaligned
> writes (e.g. due to qcow2 etc.), that property is no longer satisfied,
> and power failure of the host disk can cause more damage than the
> guest is designed to be resistant to.
Seems like the easiest solution would be to have qcow always align its writes.
We don't do on the fly compression, so it should be fairly easy to make this
happen with minimal overhead.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-20 11:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] Align file accesses with cache=off (O_DIRECT) Laurent Vivier
2008-05-20 19:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-05-20 22:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-20 22:52 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-05-20 22:59 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-05-21 0:54 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-21 7:59 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-05-21 0:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 1:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 1:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 8:06 ` Kevin Wolf
2008-05-21 1:05 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-21 1:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 8:24 ` Kevin Wolf
2008-05-21 12:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 12:37 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 13:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 13:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 14:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 14:57 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 15:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 16:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 16:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 16:48 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 17:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-21 17:18 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 17:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-21 17:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 18:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-21 18:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 20:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-21 20:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 20:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-21 18:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 16:45 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 16:44 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-20 23:04 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-05-20 23:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 1:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 1:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 2:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 8:27 ` Andreas Färber
2008-05-21 14:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-21 15:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-21 11:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-23 9:12 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-05-28 7:01 ` Kevin Wolf
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